BBC Vote 2001 - Comprehensive General Election coverage with features on the main issues, crucial seats and key people, message boards, and audio and video clips.
Hill & Knowlton Netcoms UK Election 2001 Predictor - Online application allows you to see the effect on the House of Commons of voting swings and opinion polls, and lists the likely winners and losers.
BBC Vote 2001 Results - Full General Election results for 7 June 2001, by party and by constituency.
British General Election 2001 - Keele University's election site for 2001, including results and links to parties, pressure groups and other political resources.
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 2001 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 2001
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 2001 The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 2001
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 2001 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 2001
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 2001 "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern 2001
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 2001 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 2001
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 2001 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 2001
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 2001 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch 2001
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha 2001 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 2001
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 2001 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and 2001
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple 2001 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 2001
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel 2001 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 2001
